"Cuba Is Going Dark"

In today's NYT's international section, there's a full page article titled, Cuba Is Going Dark, about a tremendous tragedy that sadly appears to be quickly unfolding. Cuba’s incredibly unique and influential culture, that has barely survived these past decades, soon may all but disappear. 

With its current United States sanctioned naval blockade, on March 17th, President Donald Trump took a stand, "I do believe I'll be having the honor of taking Cuba," he said. "That's a big honor. Taking Cuba in some form. Whether I free it or take it. I think I can do anything I want with it, you want to know the truth."

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/19/world/americas/cuba-blackout-electricity.html 

 

In January of 1998, I returned to Havana to complete a series of unfinished street portraits from 1994. Once again, to revisit my stay and support a loving family who had once, years before, taken me in. That period then referred to as the so-called "special period". 

At the corner of Calle Cardenas and Apodaca, in the old neighborhood of Jesus Maria (during January of 1998), I finished documenting those local “habaneros" - those individuals with their hardened stories, all barely, still just hanging on.